Kimberly Guilfoyle says she is "a first generation American" pointing to her mother, "a special education teacher from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico," and her father, "also an immigrant," so it's worth pointing out that Puerto Rico is a US Territory and its resident are US Citizens.
Trump has finished and left, but there’s thousands of supporters who have been let loose into the night with no sign of the shuttles they’ve been told will take them back to parking. People are filling the street, blocking the road for ambulances and police.
Well, if you had “Nickelback invokes trademark infringement to remove a parody video posted by the president to Twitter,” on your 2019 bingo card, today is your day.
“I shook Robert Kennedy’s hand in 1968,” a woman tells Pete Buttigieg. “So you’re good luck?” he asks. “Not really— he was shot a month later,” she tells him.
It is by no means a small crowd here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where President Donald Trump is rallying supporters tonight. But the campaign had hyped a packed arena with overflow space that would span blocks outdoors— it is not, by any means, that.
Amy Klobuchar, who sits on the Senate Commerce Committee, greets her old campaign rival, Pete Buttigieg, says, "I think you know I’m excited about your nomination....I know you well, and I can attest to my colleagues what a forward thinking and thoughtful secretary you will be."
President Joe Biden, chocolate chocolate chip ice cream in hand, tells
@albamonica
at Honey Hut Ice Cream, "I can’t imagine anyone voting against establishing a commission on the greatest assault since the Civil War on the Capitol. But at any rate, I came for ice cream."
An aide to Sen Loeffler just pushed
@mkraju
out of the way after she refused to answer if the election she lost last night was free & fair— when reprimanded by Capitol Police, the aide lied, said he didn’t push Manu. When Capitol Police told aide they saw him, the aide apologized
Trump has finished and left, but there’s thousands of supporters who have been let loose into the night with no sign of the shuttles they’ve been told will take them back to parking. People are filling the street, blocking the road for ambulances and police.
Vice President Kamala Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and Rupaul's Drag Race Winner Symone take the stage at the Capitol Pride Festival in Washington, DC Sunday
New this AM: Stacey Abrams and Andrew Yang announced Project 100, a campaign to provide direct cash payments to SNAP Families during the Covid crisis, with celebrity backers Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Halsey, Stephen Colbert, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and others.
A man brandishing an “America First AF” flag and a megaphone asks the journalists outside Walter Reed “Can you say hi to Tucker Carlson? He’s the best journalist out there.”
Pete Buttigieg has been interrupted four times here in Dallas by protesters. One yelled “Marriage is between a man and a woman!” Another yelled “Repent!” After the 4th, Buttigieg continued, “The moment I packed my bags for Afghanistan, to defend that man’s freedom of speech...”
At the United 93 Memorial in Shanksville, George W. Bush warns, "We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come, not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within," calls violent extremism abroad & domestic "children of the same foul spirit."
Back in Atlanta, Democratic candidate for Senate Jon Ossoff kicks off a Small Business Saturday tour with a stop at Slutty Vegan, a vegan burger joint. “We got Jon Jon running for Senate in the building!” a staffer calls out as Ossoff enters, prompting cheers.
The last Duke of Sussex, named in 1801, advocated for abolishing the slave trade and for religious minorities.
Today, Meghan Markle, a biracial American actress and philanthropist descended from slaves, became the Duchess of Sussex. I think that’s cool.
It appears that Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, is here at Walter Reed Medical Center— supporters on site starting chanting “Gavin! Gavin!” as he arrived. Trump’s shoutout to the group during the debate bolstered the Proud Boys:
Asked about the former President’s comments hitting Biden on immigration, Jen Psaki tells
@weijia
“Yes, we don't take our advice or counsel from former President Trump on immigration policy, which was not only inhumane, but ineffective over the last four years.”
Lawyers for Dominion Voting systems say they’ve filed a defamation charge against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in DC federal court, writing "Mr. Lindell advertised 'absolute proof,' but he delivered absolute nonsense and fake documents sourced from the dark corners of the internet.”
Speaking in FL, former President Barack Obama hits Trump, says "If you gotta walk out of a 60 Minutes Interview, then you're never gonna stand up to a dictator, if you're spending all your time talking about how mean reporters are to you, you're never going to stand up to Putin."
Worth pointing out Ivanka Trump did not think it was inappropriate for her father to place women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault to sit in the front row during a presidential debate with Hillary Clinton (or if she did, she remained quiet on it).
“Do you believe your father’s [sexual misconduct] accusers?” -
@PeterAlexander
“I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated there’s no truth to it.” -
@IvankaTrump
Via
@mkraju
: Rep. Liz Cheney, the number three Republican in the House, told members on a conference call last night tomorrow’s impeachment vote is “a vote of conscience.” Cheney hasn’t said how she plans to vote, but Republicans have yet to whip a vote, as they did in 2019.
Speaking in Columbia, SC, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg condemns racism, warning, “White nationalism is a deadly disease that has claimed lives as far away as New Zealand and as close as Charleston. So let’s do something about that.”
Biden blasts GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville in remarks from DC tonight, saying "Right now, tens of thousands of America’s daughters and sons are deployed around the world tonight, keeping us safe from immense national security challenges, but the senator from Alabama is not."
President Joe Biden First Lady Jill Biden, and the Bidens' newly adopted puppy, Commander, greet representatives from all six branches of the military in a Christmas Day call from the White House.
One of two likely things happened here: the Trump campaign either shopped a fake front page to prove their point and wallpapered their office kitchen with it to boost morale, or they found a fake one online and lacked the basic skills to check it. Neither speaks highly of them.
Some quick figures, before I sign off-- tonight's South Bend farewell was the 305th time I've covered Pete Buttigieg since December 2018. I've been through 30 states, 3 cameras, two pairs of AirPods, and a little over a year of my life with the former Mayor of South Bend. Onward!
An exasperated voter in Marietta asks RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, “Why should we trust this election when it’s already been decided?” McDaniel says, “It hasn’t been decided!” Another voter shouts out that Republican Governor Brian Kemp is corrupt.
Biden in TX: "We're not here today as Democrats or Republicans. We're here today as American leaders w...responsibilities to all the people we serve. When a crisis hits our states like the one to hit TX it’s not a Republican or Democrat, it's our fellow Americans who are hurting"
I’m guessing this is a typo, but the Trump campaign is texting supporters to “vote for the candidate that will never stop fighting YOU. Vote Trump!” (There should probably be a “for” in there).
There is a lot going on in the world, and it deserves your attention, but I hope you’ll pause for a moment and remember that four years ago today , 49 members of the LGBTQ community were murdered in cold blood, and for many across the world, being openly gay is an act of courage.
Those are Reps. Gutierrez, Crowley, Lewis, Jayapal, Green, to name a few— they’ve walked from Customs and Border Patrol to (near) the White House to protest the administration separating children from their parents at the border.
Some, as they say, professional news— this week was my first week as part of CNN’s White House team. After two and a half years, this embed is hanging up his road spurs and turning his attention to 1600 Penn. Excited for this next chapter.
After his coffee with Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess, I asked Pete Buttigieg if it was premature to declare a victory in Iowa last night. He declined to respond.
An update to this story: after telling CNN Keegan-Michael Key is joining Buttigieg on the campaign trail to support his campaign, they’ve now said the actor’s appearance will be solely to promote voter registration and early voting.
UPDATED STORY:
Biden addresses military personnel at a vaccine site in TX: "You have no idea—you probably do have some idea the difference you’re making. I just wanted to make sure you fully understand what you’re doing...You are making a gigantic difference, here and around the country."
Four different people have interrupted RNC Chair McDaniel on vote counts. “I guess it’s a Q&A now!” A voter asks McDaniel about voting machines switching votes. “We haven’t seen evidence of that,” McDaniel says.
This is insane. A number of the people we saw storm the Capitol yesterday, including the man who posed for photos on the Senate dais, and several in Leader Pelosi’s are known supporters of the president. We’ve seen them at Trump rallies for months.
Re: the Senator’s claim that “They just jack-hammered the text of the First Amendment off the wall in front of what used to be the Newseum in DC”— they removed the tablets four months ago and already announced plans to install them at the National Constitution Center in PA.
There it is: in an email release, Bernie Sanders’ campaign writes, “Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday during an all staff conference call announced that he is suspending his campaign for president.”
“The campaign ends, the struggle continues.”
RNC National Spokeswoman has deleted this RT of the President suggesting a man shoved to the ground by police in Buffalo was “a set up,” linking to an article that claims the man was “trying to get punched in the face.”
On Tuesday at the debate, Trump mocked Biden for wearing a mask, saying, “I don't have -- I don't wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200-feet away from -- and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen.”
Tonight, quarantine.
Just last hour, President Donald Trump told Sean Hannity, on the news top aide Hope Hicks had tested positive for Coronavirus, “So, whether we quarantine or whether we have it, I don't know.” Now, he tweets this:
At this point, White House Staff has a better chance of learning about a Covid-19 outbreak at their workplace from
@JenniferJJacobs
than they do from their employer.
I always thought
@JenniferJJacobs
was a great reporter but truly impressed with how she's balanced her day job with her side gig as the official contact tracer of the Executive Branch
Trump says “We will be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions for all of their customers,” adds “This has never happened before," though requiring coverage of preexisting conditions was a centerpieces of the ACA.
"We saw a few weeks ago that Paw Patrol, a cartoon show about cops, was canceled," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters in the briefing room today, despite that a) not being true and b) not being super important! Given the current state of things!
Pete Buttigieg fires back against Marco Rubio, who told CNN's
@mkraju
voting to codify same-sex marriage was a "stupid waste of time," telling
@jaketapper
“If [Rubio’s] got time to fight against Disney, I don't know why he wouldn't have time to help safeguard marriages like mine"
On a call w/ reporters WH Senior Advisor Stephen Miller, speaking as an advisor to the Trump campaign, claimed, without evidence, Biden "would incentivize child smuggling and child trafficking on an epic global scale" falsely claiming "This administration kept families together."
One of few comforts I had losing my mom (seven years ago last week) was I was there to say goodbye. It is a cruel twist of the knife that 500,000 Americans weren't afforded that luxury (more, when we count those who've died unrelated to Covid). Please do your part to end this.
McDaniel says that she’s focused on electing Loeffler and Perdue in January, prompting a member of the audience to shout “and Donald Trump!”
“We’ve gotta focus on January 5th right now,” McDaniel says. “We can focus on those other things later.” A bunch of people start shouting
CNN's Jim
@Acosta
reports the President is furious with WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders over her handling of news on Stormy Daniels. A source close to the White House tells Jim "POTUS is very unhappy. Sarah gave the Stormy Daniels story line steroids yesterday."
On dealing w/ Trump, Pete Buttigieg tells supporters in Nashua, "Dealing with insults is not a problem. I grew up in Indiana, I’m gay. I learned how to keep my cool when the Taliban was shooting rockets at my base, I think I can keep my cool when he’s shooting tweets my way too."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arriving at Thursday's State Dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron with her daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, tells reporters she's feeling "great, and happy, and relieved," about her successor, newly elected Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Melania Trump has joined the growing chorus of President Donald Trump’s inner circle advising him the time has come for him to accept the loss, a source familiar with the conversations tells CNN’s
@KateBennett_DC
Buttigieg was interrupted by South Bend Dems Chair Gladys Muhammad, who asked black voters to support Buttigieg. "I can't interrupt Miss Gladys, Buttigieg said.
Muhammad said, "We support Pete. We have a few disgruntled people who lost an election still stuck back in time."